3 Wellington Street

A textile (wool) warehouse of 1872, probably by John Kirk and Sons, possibly for Bielefeld and Wertheim, with alterations.

MATERIALS: buff sandstone walls, slate roof with lead central flat.

PLAN: irregularly pentagonal, facing east with a cranked south wall, and abutted to the west by 23 and 25 Wellington Road and to the north by 5 Wellington Street.

EXTERIOR: standing in the Dewsbury Town Centre Conservation Area at the south end of a block of smaller warehouses. The building is of five storeys, in a Classical palazzo style.

To Wellington Street is a five-bay ashlar frontage with a rusticated ground floor (in 2022, painted). The ground and first floors each have a bracketed cornice; that to the ground floor forming a first-floor sill band, and with horizontal labels between the brackets. Each of the three floors above has a sill band and cornice, with horizontal niches below the sills, and moulded window architraves flanked by vertical niches. The main entrance has a shouldered, flat head and a replacement door. To the left are two replacement windows, and a wide modern entrance. All other windows are two-over-two timber sashes. Four first-floor windows have shouldered, flat heads; at the right is a half-height window with foliate-shouldered architrave, surmounted by foliate carving and a cartouche with the monogram J W and the date 1872 in relief. The roof is hipped to all sides.

The north wall is obscured at the ground and first floor by number 5. Above this, the wall is of coursed stone, with four windows to each floor, linked by ashlar sill and lintel bands. The eaves cornice returns along this façade.

To Back Nelson Street the eaves cornice also returns. The six-bay façade is cranked between bays 2 and 3 (from the left). Windows are linked by ashlar sill and lintel bands. Bay 4 has former loading doorways, with a hoist jib. All the openings on both side walls have replacement uPVC windows.

INTERIOR: the original roof structure, and structural cast-iron columns and timber beams remain (boxed-in in places), and the hoist mechanism is also retained in the roof structure. Modern partitions and finishes have been added, but the brickwork of the outer walls is largely exposed.